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Has the honeymoon glow for your job long since gone - and you’re now having a hard time getting psyched to go to work each day?
If so, here are some PSYCHE-OLOGY TECHNIQUES to fall back in love with your career!
(1) Each day leave your desk when you’re excited and cocky about what you’re working on — so the next morning you’ll be excited to return and cocky in how you start your day.
(2) Get trigger happy. Surround yourself with all your awards and photos of successful, happy moments — which trigger confidence and added zest to work.
(3) Link your success to something else…like baby needs a new pair of shoes…or mommy needs a new pair of Pradas. Bribe yourself to success!
(4) Play with people better than you. In every career there are “SUPERMODELERS.” Go get caffienated with one. Hearing their tales of glory will reingnite your passion..and maybe they’ll offer tips on how to better wag a tale or two yourself.
(5) Remind yourself WHY you were passionate about your work in your honeymoon period…then ask yourself why your honeymoon waned. Un-wane the wane!
(6) Does your work improve people’s lives? Remind youself how what you do MATTERS!
(7) Increase your passion for what you do by increasing the hyperbole power of the words you associate yourself with. For example, as I a writer would re-psyche myself to work on a project by picking career hyperboles to tell myself like: I am a Kick Butt Author, I am A Sorcerer of Words, I am a Mistress of Semantics!
(8) Recharge your energy with new clothes energy. When you buy something brand new you are ensuring you are not bringing any negative associations into your day due to a subconsious memory of past negative office events associated to what you are wearing. Likewise… you know those “lucky clothes” you think you have? They actually can make you luckier — by making you feel more confident — because they trigger positive associations to success — and get you thinking more confidently. So it’s not superstition that makes lucky clothes luckier for the wearer, but basic common sense psychology.
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I was reading an article where someone described herself as having “A Fabulous Life.” A few thoughts quickly buzzed around in my head…
1. Wow. How unusual for someone to boldly describe their life so hyperbolically positive!
2. What the hell is “The Fabulous Life” anyway?
I write a lot about living your “best” life. Or creating your most “optimum” career. Is there a difference between “best” and “optimum”…versus… “fabulous”? Is the word “fabulous” merely a superficial word…or does it have substance?
I think the word “fabulous” can connote something meaningful — not merely glittery — if it’s interpreted as taking the time to enjoy the fun in your life. Sometimes we get so caught up in living the best life we ironically don’t take the time to wake up and smell the Frappucinos.
Indeed, someone recently shared how his accountant asked him to cut out all his Frapuccino’s — to save cash. But for him, these Frappucinos were a fun indulgence which made him feel…well, fabulous. Plus whenever he brought his wife a Frapuccino, she’d call him her hero – and there weren’t many times in his life he could get his wife to call him a hero.
In your striving to be the “best” and living “most optimumly” … are you losing some of the “fabulousness” in your life – all the fun, playful, sexy, sensual, glamourous, quirky surprising, zest-filled, exciting stuff? In the same way that it’s often said that “the good” is the enemy of “the great”…. are “the best” and “the optimum” the enemy of “the fabulous”?
Each of us have our own specific “Frappucino’s” which make us — and the people we love — feel fabulous. Are you taking the time to smell whatever your specific Frappucino’s are?
Because I want you to lead your most FABULOUS life - I want to strongly recommend a book by my fabulous friend/colleague Peg Samuel: HOW TO BE A SOCIAL DIVA.
Peg is divaliciously gifted (and swagged) woman- who always knows all the in’s and out’s of living the “fabulous” life — often with enviable discounts, freebies and upgrades - on everything including travel, entertainment, fashion, fitness, food, nutrition, beauty products, pampering relaxation tips — you name it - she knows it - and knows the best names to seek for it! Peg generously shares all her diva inside info in HOW TO BE A SOCIAL DIVA — and it’s a super fun read - written with feisty humor as it informs and enlightens!
If lately you’ve been feeling like your seeking “the best career” and/or “the best life” — has ironically gotten you so frazzled that it’s gotten in the way of your living your happiest, most fabulous life, I strongly recommend you check out HOW TO BE A SOCIAL DIVA - which is available in bookstores and of course amazon - which you can get to by clicking this line here NOW!
In summary: HOW TO BE A SOCIAL DIVA is a must-read for seekers of the “fabulous”!
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